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Luo Haoping, the manager of Chinese run Hubei-Gaza Friendship Farm, and a local worker check rice in the paddy field on the suburbs of Xaixai, capital city of the southern province of Gaza, Mozambique, April 17, 2010. / Xinhua
Africa

China's hybrid rice sows hope for Africa

Friday, September 06, 2019
Women fill land in Rurindo District. According to Rwanda Meteology Agency, the northern parts of the country will experience highest rainfall. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Meteorology agency predicts moderate rains

Wednesday, September 04, 2019
A woman works in her plantation. Rwanda Agriculture Board has urged farmers to start planting early as the rainy season has already started. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Farmers urged on early land preparation as rainy season starts

Wednesday, September 04, 2019
The New Times
Business

Only 6% of Africa’s farmlands is irrigated; changing it will massively impact the entire continent

Monday, September 02, 2019
Exhibition of Potatoes during during 11th triennial African Potato Association (APA) conference in Kigali on August 26, 2019. Rwanda produces 916,000 tonnes of Irish potatoes every year. Emmanuel Kwizera.
Rwanda

Rwanda to test GM potato varieties

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Tomatoes are one of perishable fruits and vegetable commodities with post-harvest losses according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. / Sam Ngendahimana

Rwf25 billion fruit market to reduce post-harvest losses

Sunday, August 25, 2019
The swine erysipelas, a disease locally known as u2018Rushe,u2019 has claimed lives of over 100 pigs in Gisagara District, and Governement has devised strategies to contain it. / Internet photo
Rwanda

Swine disease outbreak hits Gisagara pig farms

Monday, August 19, 2019
The new livestock insurance scheme was established by insurance companies in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources. / Sam Ngendahimana

National Agriculture Insurance Scheme to go countrywide – official

Saturday, August 17, 2019
The nine Rwandans who were illegally deported from Uganda making their way to the Sub-Registry of the East African Court of Justice near the Supreme Court yesterday. This is the second group to petition the regional court over the mistreatment they suffered at the hands of the Ugandan security operatives. / Courtesy

The Rwanda-Uganda tension is a Museveni manufactured crisis

Friday, August 16, 2019
ACP Cu00e9lestin Twahirwa hands over a dummy cheque for medical insurance cover to local authorities in Bugesera District. / Courtesy

Police covers medical insurance premiums for 3,000 vulnerable residents

Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Visually impaired people were trained on different skills to run businesses.
Business

How cooperative for the visually impaired restored dignity of members

Monday, August 12, 2019
Inside the banana processing plant in Kayonza. The plant currently produces between 800 and 900 crates of banana wine every day. Photos by Jean de Dieu Nsabimana.
Rwanda

Kayonza banana farmers buoyed by new market for their produce

Wednesday, August 07, 2019